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This is an update to an older post you can find here. If you just want to download the new Replay Director, click here. Working with the iRacing replay software can be pretty challenging. While they clearly thought about people producing replays and have custom cameras, keyboard shortcuts to switch cameras, etc – actually using the replay software in that way is frustrating and almost unusable. Lately, even things like the ‘Follow most Exciting’ camera mode doesn’t even seem to work, and I doubt issues with the replay software is near the top of the team’s roadmap....

See a clip of the monitor in action here! The Octoprint Problem I don’t know exactly how long I’ve been using Octoprint to manage my 3d printers, but I can’t remember a time I had a printer and didn’t use Octoprint. It’s a fantastic piece of software for everything 3dprint related with one glaring exception – Live camera monitoring. Octoprint’s live monitoring only supports cameras like Picam, that serve a URL you can poll and get an Mjpeg....

Bookmarks Suck Bookmarks, which should be such a fundamental and powerful part of browsing the web, has got to be one of the most poorly executed parts of our modern browsing experience. While browsers focus on developing more spyware bloat and UI features few users will ever see, there’s not an easy native way I have found to successfully collect, organize and be able to use a large personal collection of links....

It Was Supposed to Be So Easy… If you’re running a blog on a static site generator stack, you may have looked into setting up email automation and a subscriber list. If you’re a devout follower of the lazy dev principles, you probably also thought about automating this then noticed all the RSS output controls that frameworks like Hugo provide out of the box. Great – Now you just need to find an email service with a free tier and RSS integration – Easy, right?...

I’ve had enough. Over the last year, I have finally decided that all the attention manipulation, the never ending ‘signals’, and the 3500 interrupters that my phone and other devices create each day is too much to bear. I find I no longer casually or carefully read articles – let alone books! My days have become filled with a blend or oscillations between some variant of ‘doom scrolling’ on pop-news sites and trying to do 100 things at once while 1000 other things beg me to give them my attention for just a moment....